Motivational Quotes

Silence

An now the silences come in a single lifetime, in a single year... when species die, leaving a silent space in the world song that can never be filled.

- Delint, Charles

Best Quotes about Silence

Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.

Eliot, George

Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent.

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von

It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.

Seneca

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

Gaulle, Charles De

Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself, and know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth

Silence is the sanctuary of the prudent, it conceals not only secrets but also imperfections.

Zacharia

Silence is the virtue of fools.

Sir Francis Bacon

'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.

Ovid

It is better to be silent, and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.

Engel, Silvan

10.

Those that are silent profess consent.

11.

It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.

Beaumont, Francis

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There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

14.

Silence is never more golden than when you hold it long enough to get all the facts before you speak.

15.

And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. [New Testament]

Bible

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Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.

Samuel Johnson

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That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Hardy, Thomas

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Their silence is sufficient praise.

Terence

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Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Huxley, Aldous

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Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.

Gibran, Kahlil

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A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.

Dante Alighieri

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Not to ask is not be denied.

Dryden, John

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Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Sometimes a whisper speaks volumes.

Sheddan, Scott

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Consider the whale: It never gets into trouble until it comes up and starts spouting.

26.

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The silent dog is the first to bite.

Proverb

28.

The rest is silence.

William Shakespeare

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The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.

30.

Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Guevara, Che

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Let us be silent that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.

Syrus, Publilius

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There are grammatical errors even in his silence.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Churchill, Winston

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Sometimes silence is not golden -- just yellow.

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With silence favor me. (Favete Linguis)

Horace

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The greatest admiration gives rise not to words, but to silence.

Musonnius

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X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.

Dickson, R A

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If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.

Coolidge, Calvin

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You are a slave to what you do say, a master of what you don't say.

41.

It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others.

John of the Cross, St.

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An now the silences come in a single lifetime, in a single year... when species die, leaving a silent space in the world song that can never be filled.

Delint, Charles

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There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.

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Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.

Muhammad Ali

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The most profound statements are often said in silence.

Lynn Johnston

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Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross